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1 | Timestamp | PI Full name (First and Last name) | Email address | Lab website | Department | Institution | A short description of your research interests | A short description of your lab meeting format | Time Zone. If your time zone is not listed, please provide it in the format relative to Greenwich Mean Time. | Keywords. Please select a keyword that best describes your interests. This will be used to help match you to a mentee. | Keywords. Please select a different keyword that best describes your interests. This will be used to help match you to a mentee. | How many mentees would you be willing to host? | First | Last | ||||
2 | 8/12/2021 6:45:09 | Katie Lotterhos | k.lotterhos@northeastern.edu | https://sites.google.com/site/katielotterhos/home | Marine and Environmental Sciences | Northeastern University | We are interested in predicting adaptation from genomes. To better describe complex marine systems and improve predicability, our research uses theory and experiment to inform each other and develops novel statistical methodology to integrate data across biological, spatial, and temporal scales. | We meet every week for 1.5 hours on Fridays 3pm Eastern time. We switch every week between research and professional development discussions. | Eastern Time (GMT +4 hours) | Population genetics/genomics | Evolutionary Theory | 1 | Katie | Lotterhos | ||||
3 | 8/13/2021 18:09:10 | Joseph Heras | joseph.heras@csusb.edu | http://josephheras.weebly.com/ | Biology | California State University, San Bernardino | My research lab uses next generation sequencing techniques and bioinformatic tools to identify complex patterns of evolutionary adaptations (i.e. diet and depth adaptations) within fishes. | It will be a one hour format with graduate (masters students) and undergraduate students. The meetings will involve a mix of reading scientific articles, bioinformatic exercises, and professional development (i.e. presentation skills). | Pacific Time (GMT +7 hours) | Genome assembly and annotation | Functional Genomics | 1 | Joseph | Heras | ||||
4 | 8/20/2021 13:35:10 | Guin Wogan | gwogan@okstate.edu | www.guinwogan.com | Integrative Biology | Oklahoma State University | landscape genomics & epigenomics, adaptation, popgen & phylogeography | a mix of professional development, paper discussions, proposal, presentation & paper critiques. 1-1.5 hours each week (Fall semester meetings are scheduled for 4:10 CST Wednesday afternoons). | Central Time (GMT +5 hours) | Molecular ecology | Epigenetics/epigenomics | 2 | Guin | Wogan | ||||
5 | 8/25/2021 14:19:55 | Emily Rivest | ebrivest@vims.edu | NA | Biological Sciences | Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary | I am an eco-physiologist interested in the responses of marine invertebrates to changes in environmental pH and temperature. My interdisciplinary research is focused on how physiology is linked to the environmental history of populations. Our current study systems are bivalve and crustacean shellfish, with a focus on early life stages. | We meet twice per month. One meeting per month is student-led and could be a practice presentation, data discussion, journal article discussion, etc. One meeting per month is led by myself and ranges from JEDI-focused paper discussions, lab policy development (co-production and review), and professional development activities (e.g. CV peer-review). | Eastern Time (GMT +4 hours) | Genetic diversity / Ecosystem function | Evolutionary ecology | I'm happy to consider more than 2, if needed. | Emily | Rivest | ||||
6 | 8/25/2021 14:35:53 | Carly Kenkel | ckenkel@usc.edu | https://dornsife.usc.edu/labs/carlslab | Biological Sciences | University of Southern California | The CEE lab's primary focus is understanding how organism-environment interactions induce or select for different phenotypes and how these ecological interactions influence and are influenced by the evolutionary trajectories of populations and species. We use a variety of methods to address these questions, ranging from field experiments to ecophysiology to genomic analyses. We also have a strong interest in “translational ecology”: turning scientific findings into tools for conservation management. | We meet 2x per week one WORKS (traditional lab meeting where we rotate among lab members for research presentations) and NEWS (a journal club where we each read and briefly summarize a paper from the recent literature) | Pacific Time (GMT +7 hours) | Evolutionary ecology | Molecular ecology | 1 | Carly | Kenkel | ||||
7 | 8/25/2021 14:40:02 | Mikhail Matz | matz@utexas.edu | matzlab.weebly.com | integrative biology | university of texas at austin | coral adaptation at the genomic level | NEWS: blitz-presentation of a cool paper read in the past week, by every lab member every meeting. Papers can vary widely in subject. WORKS: blitz-presentation of every lab member's project progress, followed by collective brainstorming. | Central Time (GMT +5 hours) | Molecular ecology | Epigenetics/epigenomics | 1 | Mikhail | Matz | ||||
8 | 8/25/2021 14:56:42 | Moises Bernal | mab0205@auburn.edu | https://sites.google.com/site/moisesbernalresearch | Biological Sciences | Auburn University | Responses of marine fishes to environmental changes, including salinity, temperature and oxygen availability. | Weekly meetings where students discuss a manuscript or describe updates of their research projects. | Central Time (GMT +5 hours) | Molecular ecology | Functional Genomics | 1 | Moises | Bernal | ||||
9 | 8/25/2021 15:36:37 | Kimberly Komatsu | komatsuk@si.edu | https://serc.si.edu/labs/ecosystem-conservation | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center | Smithsonian Institution | I am a global change ecologist, broadly interested in how community and ecosystem responses to global change drivers are mediated by biotic factors. I investigate responses to global change drivers from multiple angles, including the roles that trophic interactions, symbioses, and diversity play in determining the effects of diverse global change factors, such as increased nutrient availability, consumer loss, altered climatic regimes, and species invasions. I use a variety of techniques to investigate ecosystem responses to global change drivers, including observational surveys, field and lab experiments, and data synthesis. | Our lab meetings are a hybrid virtual/in-person format (some members tune in over zoom, while others are together at SERC), and occur weekly throughout the academic year. We focus on discussing the literature, sharing practice presentations or draft proposals/papers, career development for our younger lab members (CV design, applying to grad school, etc), or the occasional social event (e.g., virtual game night). Our lab currently consists of myself (PI), one postdoc, two technicians, three undergrad interns, and two grad fellows. | Eastern Time (GMT +4 hours) | Genetic diversity / Ecosystem function | Molecular ecology | 1 | Kimberly | Komatsu | ||||
10 | 8/25/2021 15:39:44 | Steven Roberts | sr320@uw.edu | robertslab.info | School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences | University of Washington | Marine invertebrate genomics, environmental response | alternate weekly- 1) informal current research updates 2) DEI (see https://robertslab.github.io/resources/Environment-and-Expectations/#lab-environment) | Pacific Time (GMT +7 hours) | Epigenetics/epigenomics | Genome assembly and annotation | 1 | Steven | Roberts | ||||
11 | 8/25/2021 16:18:40 | Carolyn Tepolt, Ann Tarrant | ctepolt@whoi.edu | https://www2.whoi.edu/site/tepoltlab/, https://www2.whoi.edu/site/tarrantlab/ | Biology | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | "T2" lab meetings are shared by the Tepolt and Tarrant labs at WHOI. Together, our labs explore how marine invertebrates adapt to their environments on both short and long time scales; our work includes population and evolutionary genetics, ecophysiology, stress responses, and cycling (circadian rhythms, diapause, etc). We primarily use molecular tools in conjunction with physiology, ecology, animal behavior, and even some parasitology. | ~3 times / month, 1 hr virtual meetings. Lab meeting participants take turns leading meetings, which can be focused on ongoing research, upcoming talks, interesting papers, professional discussions (e.g., how to review a paper), or similar. We strongly support zoom visits by people's pets. | Eastern Time (GMT +4 hours) | Evolutionary ecology | Molecular ecology | 2 | Carolyn | Tepolt, Ann Tarrant | ||||
12 | 8/25/2021 17:10:10 | Michael kantar | mbkantar@hawaii.edu | https://mbkantarlab.weebly.com/ | Tropical Plant and Soil Science | University of Hawaii | Plant Domestication and Evolution | We discuss student projects and ask questions of students preparing for exams. | Hawaii Time (GMT +10 hours) | Population genetics/genomics | Genetic diversity / Ecosystem function | 2 | Michael | kantar | ||||
13 | 8/25/2021 20:25:46 | Stacy Krueger-Hadfield | sakh@uab.edu | www.quooddy.com | Biology | University of Alabama at Birmingham | We study the evolutionary ecology of sex. We use algal and invertebrate models to empirically test predictions about when and where sex evolves and is maintained. We use natural history, population genetics, and experimental evolution in the lab and in the field. | we have hybrid zoom and face to face meetings where lab members present their latest research, discuss papers, etc. | Central Time (GMT +5 hours) | Evolutionary ecology | Population genetics/genomics | 2 | Stacy | Krueger-Hadfield | ||||
14 | 8/25/2021 21:12:14 | Randall Hughes | ann.hughes@northeastern.edu | hugheslab.squarespace.com | Marine and Environmental Science | Northeastern University | I am interested in the causes and consequences of genetic variation in marine foundation species (seagrasses, oysters, salt marsh plants, mangroves) and how those inform habitat restoration and genetic management in response to climate change. | We meet virtually for 1 hour weekly, with each meeting led by a different member of the lab group. The topic of the meeting is up to the leader and can involve reading and discussing a paper, providing feedback on ideas, presenting new results, practicing presentations, etc. | Eastern Time (GMT +4 hours) | Genetic diversity / Ecosystem function | Eco-evolutionary dynamics | 1 | Randall | Hughes | ||||
15 | 8/26/2021 11:01:04 | Jonathan Puritz | jpuritz@uri.edu | MarineEvoEco.com | Biological Sciences | University of Rhode Island | Our research investigates how natural and anthropogenic processes affect the evolution of marine populations through the lens of larval dispersal. We combine laboratory multi-stressor larval exposure experiments with genomic surveys of natural populations, analyzing patterns of selection and migration in a geographic context using landscape (or seascape) genomic models. Our lab also develops laboratory and bioinformatic methods to facilitate the use of next-generation sequencing in non-model species. | Our lab meetings start with announcements, then each member provides a quick update to the group, and then one member presents a paper or research to the entire group. The last 15-30 mins are then spent on a JEDI activity discussion which has varied between book chapters, lectures, poems, movies, and podcasts. | Eastern Time (GMT +4 hours) | Population genetics/genomics | Molecular ecology | 1 | Jonathan | Puritz | ||||
16 | 8/26/2021 11:20:52 | Brook Moyers | brook.moyers@umb.edu | http://moyerslab.science | Biology | University of Massachusetts Boston | We study how and why traits vary within plant species to address real world problems, including food production and species conservation. We integrate approaches from the fields of ecology, physiology, genetics, and evolutionary biology. | One hour, once a week, with each meeting usually led by one or two lab members who present work in progress or lead paper discussions | Eastern Time (GMT +4 hours) | Population genetics/genomics | Molecular ecology | 2 | Brook | Moyers | ||||
17 | 8/26/2021 14:58:28 | Jan Vicente | janv@hawaii.edu | http://tobolab.org/ | SOEST | HIMB | I am a sponge ecologist and my research focus is on sponge biogeography throughout Oceania. | Lab meetings are held over zoom and include updates on general lab issues followed by assigned talks provided by graduate students and postdocs. Feedback is provided to presenters. Lab meetings usually last between 1 and 2 hours. | Hawaii Time (GMT +10 hours) | Molecular ecology | Evolutionary ecology | 1 | Jan | Vicente | ||||
18 | 8/26/2021 16:38:32 | Malin Pinsky | malin.pinsky@rutgers.edu | https://pinsky.marine.rutgers.edu/ | Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources | Rutgers University | We advance global understanding of populations and communities in a rapidly changing environment to inform stewardship and train the next generation of scientific leaders. Our research focuses on global change ecology and evolution, and we actively work to create an inclusive, diverse, and supportive community to pursue this research. Much of our focus is on the ocean, which contains 90% of the habitable space on Earth but where we understand little about how human activities are (or are not) transforming ecosystems, the key processes involved, and the actions that could make a difference. Terrestrial, marine, and freshwater realms are fundamentally different environments, and a central interest of ours is the extent to which global change patterns and processes are similar across realms. Integrating tools from statistical ecology, population genomics, field observations, and mathematical modeling, our research aims to understand the consequences of these differences for global change and the implications for developing a more sustainable society. | We meet weekly for an hour. Each meeting is led by a lab member and can take a wide range of formats. Some weeks are a paper discussion, others are practice talks, comments on draft manuscripts, research idea brainstorming, or discussion of professional skills, ethics, DEI, and other topics. | Eastern Time (GMT +4 hours) | Population genetics/genomics | Conservation genetics/genomics | 2 | Malin | Pinsky | ||||
19 | 8/27/2021 12:37:11 | Joanna Kelley | joanna.l.kelley@wsu.edu | Labs.WSU.edu/genomes | Biology | Washington state university | The Kelley Lab is located at Washington State University, in Pullman, WA. Our research focuses on evolutionary genomics and adaptation to extreme environments. We are interested in understanding how populations diverge and adapt to the environments they encounter. To identify and characterize specific genes and pathways that underlie adaptive change, we combine statistical and genomic approaches with knowledge from organismal and ecological studies. We leverage natural systems to gain insight into basic biological processes, which has profound implications for our understanding of human health and disease. Our work utilizes a range of technological and analytical methods for genomics. By correlating genetic changes to phenotypic outcomes using population genomics, we hope to link genomic changes to sources of selection. | We have bi-weekly lab meetings. We have two presenters per lab meeting and have a range of professional development topics sprinkled into the lab meetings. | Pacific Time (GMT +7 hours) | Population genetics/genomics | Functional Genomics | 2 | Joanna | Kelley | ||||
20 | 8/30/2021 17:06:37 | Sarah Cohen | sarahcoh@sfsu.edu | https://sites.google.com/site/rtccohenlab/home | Biology | San Francisco State University | Relating organismal features (including morphology, behavior, genetic variation) to environmental selection; broad variety of organisms but particularly marine invertebrates and seagrass right now. Disease ecology in crabs, sea stars, sea grass, fish, and other organisms. | 1-1.5 hours on zoom, more and less formal presentations, discussions about journal articles, research plans, practice talks, trouble-shooting gear, data presentations, field work planning. | Pacific Time (GMT +7 hours) | Evolutionary ecology | Eco-evolutionary dynamics | 1 | Sarah | Cohen | ||||
21 | 8/30/2021 18:56:44 | Casey terHorst | casey.terhorst@csun.edu | www.ecoevolab.com | Biology | California State University, Northridge | We are interested in how genetic variation or evolution on short time scales affects ecological interactions. We work in a range of systems, including coral-algal symbioses, invasive plants, and pitcher plant microcosms. | We typically alternate between reading papers from the primary literature and some kind of professional development (developing an elevator pitch, discussing DEI issues, hidden curriculum in academia) | Pacific Time (GMT +7 hours) | Eco-evolutionary dynamics | Evolutionary ecology | 2 | Casey | terHorst | ||||
22 | 9/9/2021 16:30:16 | Narissa Bax | nbax@saeri.ac.fk | https://www.south-atlantic-research.org/ | Ecosystems | South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) | Narissa Bax joined SAERI in May 2021 as a Marine and Coastal Program Coordinator. Her role focuses on the coordination and development of research to sustainably conserve a network of Marine Management Areas (MMAs) aligned to international criteria for Marine Protected Area (MPA) designation. Narissa has a PhD from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia, where she specialised on deep sea coral biodiversity, biogeography, connectivity, phylogenetics and conservation – across the Antarctic continental shelf and slope, the sub-antarctic, Patagonia and South West Atlantic. Her research agenda as a benthic-ecologist is open to meaningful collaborations, and currently includes the Antarctic Seabed Carbon Capture Change (ASCCC) project which aims to understand the function of polar and subpolar seabeds in the carbon cycle ‘Antarctic blue carbon’. Narissa has worked as a marine scientist in tropical, temperate and polar environments, including five Antarctic field seasons, diving in Patagonia, conservation planning in Myanmar and specimen-based research in natural history collections around the world. She has witnessed some of Earth’s most spectacular biodiversity across a career inspired by Indonesia’s coral triangle ~17 years ago, and is looking forward to exploring the Falkland Islands over the next two and half years. In order to foster long-term research capacity over this time-frame, she hopes to coordinate at sea sampling and technology in unexplored mesophotic ecosystems (~30 – 100m) – where preliminary investigations have identified new biodiversity habitats in 2021. Including three previously unrecorded local marine-scapes, the first records for stylasterid coral assemblages, rhodolith beds (coralline algae nodules), and reef-like aggregations of parchment worms. Due to the rare frontier location of the Falklands at the intersection of the South Atlantic and Subantarctic – this research encompasses a vast geographic area of globally unique Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs), and advances biodiversity protection and nature-based solutions to climate change. | The Falkland Islands is a remote location, so internet issues are common, but web-based meetings can be accommodated. | Falkland Islands (GMT-3) | Evolutionary ecology | Population genetics/genomics | 1 | Narissa | Bax | ||||
23 | 9/10/2021 6:19:53 | Natalya Gallo | natalya.gallo@uib.no | https://hyponfjordfish.w.uib.no/ | Department of Biological Sciences | University of Bergen | Effects of hypoxia on fish communities, climate change impacts to deep sea ecosystems | Weekly meetings (both a lab-specific, and a group-specific meeting) | Central European Standard Time (CEST) (GMT+2) | Evolutionary ecology | Eco-evolutionary dynamics | I think hosting 2 would be better to build interactions between the students too | Natalya | Gallo | ||||
24 | 9/13/2021 13:56:31 | Andrew Whitehead | awhitehead@ucdavis.edu | https://whiteheadresearch.wordpress.com/ | Environmental Toxicology | University of California Davis | Activities in the Whitehead lab revolve around Environmental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Genomics research. These lines of research seek to understand how genomes integrate cues from, respond to, and are shaped by the external environment. We examine genomic responses to stress that occur over physiological timescales (acclimation responses) and over evolutionary timescales (adaptive responses). Many complementary approaches are integrated into our program, including genome expression profiling, population genetics/genomics and phylogenetics, and physiology, to study how individuals and species respond to and adapt to environmental stress. Stressors of interest include those that are natural (temperature, salinity) or of human origin (pollutants, climate change). We have both a basic science angle to our research program, and also an applied angle that leverages genomic information to diagnose and solve environmental problems. | We will meet once per week, 1.5-2 hrs, in-person, with virtual (hybrid) option | Pacific Time (GMT +7 hours) | Molecular ecology | Conservation genetics/genomics | 1 | Andrew | Whitehead | ||||
25 | 9/15/2021 0:34:15 | Andrés López | jalopez2@alaska.edu | https://sites.google.com/alaska.edu/ ichthyology-and-evolution-uaf | Fisheries | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Fish systematics and molecular evolution. I am particularly interested in the roles of geography and history in shaping fish taxonomic and phenotypic diversity. | We hold one weekly lab meeting to discuss ongoing lab activities and future opportunities and a separate open journal club meeting to discuss recent research of interest. | Alaska Time (GMT + 8 hours) | Population genetics/genomics | Conservation genetics/genomics | 1 | Andrés | López | ||||
26 | 9/15/2021 13:15:29 | Anthony Akpan | ajakpan@yahoo.com | www.pavenigeria.org | Executive Management | Pan African Vision for the Environment | Promoting Ocean Literacy | Via zoom | GMT+1 | Evolutionary ecology | Evolutionary ecology | 2 | Anthony | Akpan | ||||
27 | 9/15/2021 13:53:46 | alessia dinoi | alexiadinoi@gmail.com | https://molzoolab.co.za/aquatic/ | Zoology | UJ | Genetic connectivity between marine specie population | online format | UTC +2 | Molecular ecology | Molecular ecology | 1 | alessia | dinoi | ||||
28 | 9/15/2021 16:20:17 | Eva Majerova | majerova@hawaii.edu | https://www.coralresiliencelab.com | Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology | University of Hawai‘i at Manoa | We study molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying coral adaptation/acclimatization to increasing water temperatures caused by climate change, and we search for ways to apply this knowledge in restoration practices based on the principles of assisted evolution. We use integrative approaches combining standard ecological and physiology studies with assays and analyses taken from model organisms molecular and cellular research (fluorescence microscopy labeling, gene knock-down, protein activity inhibition, immunoassays, etc.) | We meet every two weeks to discuss the progress of our projects. Each person quickly talks about what they have done during the past two weeks, we discuss general lab things (broken appliances, problems in a daily lab life, etc), and then usually one person talks in detail about their fresh results or setbacks in their work. We then have smaller-group lab meetings with people working on particular projects together where we discuss the current project only. | Hawaii Time (GMT +10 hours) | Functional Genomics | Molecular ecology | 1 | Eva | Majerova | ||||
29 | 9/15/2021 16:57:40 | Patricia Valdespino | PMValdespino@lbl.gov | www.bsisb.lbl.gov | Molecuar Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Biogeochemistry and Aquatic Microbial ecology. Some of the current projects are focused on microbial genomics and diversity in ultraoligotrophic to eutrophic environments. Tropical coastal carbonate building systems. Also, bacterioplankton diversity in warming scenarios. | Meetings occur typically twice a month in virtual platforms such as zoom. There, students and academics present research progress, method reviews and publications. Presenters use approximately 20 minutes and 40 min are reserved for Q & A and discussions. | Pacific Time (GMT +7 hours) | Genetic diversity / Ecosystem function | Functional Genomics | 2 | Patricia | Valdespino | ||||
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